Popular Suzhou Attractions

Suzhou is a modern city with a historic past. A tour of Suzhou will provide the visitor with much to see and admire from the ancient streets and classical private gardens to modern malls, from traditional arts and crafts to trendy fashion shows, from skyscrapers to parks and museums - Suzhou is a city that combines the historic and the modern in its own unique way.

A wonderful limestone mountain, the Mountain Villa with Embracing Beauty, covering only 2,179 square m., enjoys the same reputation as other famous garden in China. It is located on 272 Jingde Road, inside the Embroidery Museum of Suzhou. In 1997, it was recognized with other classical Suzhou gardens as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.According to the historical records, the limestone mountain was designed and piled...

The Lingering Garden was listed from the first as cultural relics of national importance in 1961. Covering an area of 23,310 ㎡, it is celebrated for its artistic way of dealing with the spaces between various kinds of architectural form. Buildings make up one third of the total area of the garden, the hall of which being the most remarkable in Suzhou. The garden is separated into the middle, eastern, northern and wester...

As one of the representatives of Chinese culture and arts, Suzhou embroidery enjoys a good reputation of the first of the Top-four embroiders in China. Suzhou embroidery was originated in Wuxian, Jiangsu Province. These areas have been famous for their high quality silk productions for centuries. The country of Wu (current Suzhou area) has started to use embroidery to decorate garments over 2,000 years ago. Suzhou embroid...

The Gate to the East ,or the Gate of the Orient is a 301-meter-high skyscraper in Suzhou City. The East Gate consists two parts of the North Building and South Building; it is a high - rise building of door appearance, with a total height of 300 meters, the two-storey part of building connected at 238 meters. The design for the Gate of the Orient was inspired by the combined Chinese traditions and western influe...

Guangqian Street (Guanqian Jie) is a hundred commercial streets formed in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), old shops and boutiques shops are gathered here, which fame spread far and wide and abroad.Located in bustling downtown area in Suzhou, it does boast a Taoist Temple in its center and this street is named after the temple. Guanqian was set to walking street in early 1982; it is the country's first commercial pedestrian...

Covering 51,950 square meters, the Humble Administrator's Garden is the largest of all classical gardens in Suzhou. It is centered upon the broad expanse of a lake, making up about one fifth of the total area. With well spaced buildings, the garden landscape and waterscape are simple, extensive and natural, possessing the traditional appearances of the Ming Dynasty. It is divided into three parts; the eastern, middle...

Suzhou Kun Opera Museum, also known as Chinese Kun Opera Museum, is located in Pingjiang Road in the ancient city area of Suzhou. It is a museum to rescue, protection, inherit and carry forward the old Kun Opera for the purpose and it make performances, exhibitions, collections, research, and heritage as the main job content. After half a century of efforts, now the museum has a collection of the National largest...

Celebrated for the delights of the wilderness of mountain and forest scenery, the Surging Waves Pavilion (aka Canglang Pavilion) is the oldest among the existing classical gardens of Suzhou. The exact location of the Surging Waves Pavilion can be found in the Song Dynasty map of Pingjiang (Suzhou, A.D.1229) inscribed on the stele. The northern Song poet Su Sunqin said in "A Record of the Canglang Pavilion"...